1184 CAREX. [CLASS XXI. ORDER III, 
beak, and contracted towards the base, downy; leaves longer than 
the stem, channeled, rigid; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 2124.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 94.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 542.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 287 —C. 
Humilis, Leysser. 
Root with stout fibres. Stem erect, from one to three inches high, 
leafy below. Leaves erect or spreading, as long or longer than the 
stem, numerous, narrow, linear, channeled, rough and rigid, more or 
less sheathed at the base. SPracteas oblong, acute, thin, membranous, 
white and shining. Barren spikelet terminal, linear, pedunculated, 
the scales ovate lanceolate, pale, somewhat silvery brown, fertile 
spikelets two or three, on short peduncles, three or four flowered, 
concealed by the bracteas. ruit obovate, triangular, with a short 
acute beak, downy towards the apex, and contracted towards the base, 
Stigmas three, long. 
Habitat.— On the limestone rocks at St Vincent's, Bristol. 
Perennial; flowering in May. 
59. C. digita'ta, Linn. (Fig. 1440.) Fingered Carex. Barren 
spikelet sessile, solitary, with lanceolate scales ; fertile pedunculated, 
about three, erect, lax, filiform, longer than the barren one; scales 
ovate, obtuse, or truncated; stigmas three ; fruit obovate, triquetrous, 
with a short beak, downy, contracted at the base; bracteas sub- 
membranous, sheathing ; leaves linear, flat ; root fibrous, tufted. 
English Botany, t. 615.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 93.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 343.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 287. 
foot tufted, fibrous. Stem ascending, from six to eight inches 
high, slender, striated, smooth, naked above, leafy below, and en- 
veloped in dark red sheaths. Leaves linear, acutely pointed, striated, 
rough on the margins and keel, erect, flat, paler beneath than above 
Bractea greenish, sheaths with membranous margins, obtuse, with a 
bristle-shaped point. Barren spikelet sessile, terminal, slender, linear, 
with reddish brown lanceolate membranous scales, fertile three or 
four, pedunculated, remote, the upper ones overtopping the barren 
one, long, linear, loosely flowered, with reddish brown truncated 
scales, with a pale margin and green mid-rib, terminating in a short 
point. Fruit obovate, triangular, with a short entire beak, and con- 
tracted into peduncle at the base, downy, green. Stigmas three. 
Habitat.—Near Bath and Bristol, and below Thorp Arch and 
Mackershaw Wood, Ripon, Yorkshire; very rare. 
Perennial; flowering in May. 
Sect. 5. Zerminal spikelets barren two or more, the vest fertile. 
Stigmas three 
a I’ruit downy. 
60 C. filifor'mis, Linn (Fig. 1441.) Slender-leaved Carex. Barren 
spikelets two, with narrow lanceolate scales; fertile two or three 
